Source: US News & World Report
“The deputy leader of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, has been charged with deliberately spreading lies about the Russian army, state investigators said on Thursday. … Yabloko, which has only a handful of seats in regional parliaments and no seats in the national parliament, condemned President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and appealed to him to reverse course. One of its other senior figures, Lev Shlosberg, was placed under house arrest in June after being charged with discrediting the Russian army, and another, Boris Vishnevsky, ran into problems on Tuesday when a court said it would consider a request from state prosecutors to designate his book extremist.” (10/02/25)